CINDY SHERMAN
2011-12-26Bringing together more than 180 photographs, this retrospective survey traces the artist’s career from the mid 1970s to the present.Highlighted in the exhibition are in-depth presentations of her key series, including the groundbreaking series “Untitled Film Stills” (1977–80), the black-and-white pictures that feature the artist in stereotypical female roles inspired by 1950s and 1960s Hollywood, film noir, and European art-house films; her ornate history portraits (1989–90), in which the artist poses as aristocrats, clergymen, and milkmaids in the manner of old master paintings; and her larger-than-life society portraits (2008) that address the experience and representation of aging in the context of contemporary obsessions with youth and status.
The exhibition will explore dominant themes throughout Sherman’s career, including artifice and fiction; cinema and performance; horror and the grotesque; myth, carnival, and fairy tale; and gender and class identity. Also included are Sherman’s recent photographic murals (2010), which will have their American premiere at MoMA.
Opposite – Cindy Sherman, Untitled #466, 2008
Exhibition runs from February 26th to June 11th, 2012
The Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53 Street
New York
NY
10019
